B. Papp szerk.: Studia Botanica Hungarica 34. 2003 (Budapest, 2003)

Papp, Beáta; Sabovljevic, M.: Contribution to the bryophyte flora of Turkish Thrace

dium singarense seem to be new records for Turkey based on ÇETIN (1988£>) and FREY and KÜRSCHNER (1991). Bryum rubens Mitt, is a species of the temperate zone of Europe (DULL 1985). It is a member of the Bryum erythrocarpum complex, a plant of arable fields, roadsides, earthy banks, bare soil among tussocks and other temporary habitats. It occurs on soils from slightly acid to highly basic (CRUNDWELL and NYHOLM 1964). Resulting from the solution of taxonomic problems regarding this group many new records of the members of the complex were published from the Balkan region as well. Bryum rubens and B. ruderale were reported as new species for Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) by PAPP and SABOVLJEVIC (2001). The occurrence of the species in Turkey is not a surprise. Didymodon sicculus Cano et al. is a newly described species from southeastern Spain (CANO et cd. 1996). It lives on saline and gypsiferous soil. It is similar to D. luridus Spreng. The identification of our specimens was confirmed by Juan Antonio Jimenez Fernandez. He has mentioned that he had also collected the species in Turkey. In this case our records are not new to the whole of Turkey, but they are valuable, too. The species was recorded from Greece (BLOCKEEL et al. 2002) and Italy (ALLEE! et al. 2003). It was supposed that it occurs on saline-alkali areas of other sub-Mediterranean, Mediterranean countries, as well. Seligeria paucifolia (Dicks.) Carruth. is an atlantic species in Europe. It has records from western Europe (Belgium, France, Great Britain, Ireland) and from Italy (DULL 1985). It lives on shaded limestone in Britain and frequent and sometimes locally common in South and East England. In the other countries it is rare. It is included in the list of the species of Conservation Concern in Sussex. The species was reported as new to Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) by PAPP and SABOVLJEVIC (2001). Orthotrichum microcarpum De Not. is a species of the temperate zone of Europe. It has been recorded from the sub-Mediterranean, Mediterranean region (Italy and former Yugoslavia), from northern Europe (Norway, Sweden), from Central Europe (Germany, Switzerland, Poland) as well. It was reported from the Caucasus (DULL 1985) and from Iran (FREY and KÜRSCHNER 1991). Fissidenspolyphyllus Wilson ex B., S. et G. is an atlantic, sub-Mediterranean species. It is recorded along the Atlantic coast of Europe (Great Britain, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, France), but it was found in Italy, too (DULL 1984). It is a quite robust plant growing in the lower altitudes in humid and shaded places in the Mediterranean region. It is not too common and can easily be confused with F. taxifolius subsp. pallidicaulis, but differs in the venation and leaf cells. Fissidens serrulatus Brid. is also an atlantic, sub-Mediterranean species. Besides the Atlantic coast of Europe (as Great Britain, Ireland, France, Spain, Portu-